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Priyabrat Patnaik: A Dynamic Civil Servant
By Vivek Pattanayak*
I was deeply saddened to learn about untimely passing away of Priyabrat Patnaik (1976-batch, Odisha cadre IAS). He was known to me since his early days of civil service career although I did not have the opportunity…
Perils of privatisation
By Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra*
Privatization also means different things in different parts of the world—where both the fundamentals of the economy and the purpose served by privatization may differ. Privatization, as it has emerged in…
Strength of India: Her people
By Arun K. Sahu*
It was a late afternoon before COVID-19 started in Trinidad and Tobago. I was hungry while travelling by road to Port of Spain, the capital town from down south after attending a public meeting. “Can we get some…
Ranking of the Ravenshaw University
By Vivek Pattanayak*
More than a decade has passed since the iconic Ravenshaw College once known throughout the country as an eminent educational institution of excellence acquired the status of unitary university under the law with…
Time for Humanistic Approach
By Dr Santosh Kumar Moahapatra*
Life is always uncertain as everybody will succumb to inexorably journey of time. But onset of global pandemic Covid-19 has made our life more uncertain. It has exacerbated the uncertainty factor of life…
Herculean task ahead
Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra*
We are now at a crossroads. The pernicious COVID-19 has unleashed a public health and socioeconomic catastrophe. It leaves no country, no realm of society, and no institution untouched. With each passing day,…
Freedom of Speech and Government Employees
Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra*
The authority or right to express one’s opinions without censorship, restraint or legal penalty is known as freedom of speech. In other words, freedom of speech is a principle that buttresses the freedom of an…
American College Life During COVID Times
As the virus spread across the globe, I looked at it with apathy, and then shock. From nowhere, the virus spread into our world and infected millions of people. Hundreds of thousands died. One day, my friends and I were joking around, and…
Retaliating China: Jingoism should not eclipse reality
By Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra*
After, 45 years, on 15-16 June, the face-off with China on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the eastern Ladakh region and the significant fatalities on both sides due to gruesome, brutal clashes in the…
L N Barik: An icon of industrial infrastructure development of Odisha
By Vivek Pattanayak*
Nobody called him by his full name. He was known everywhere as LN Barik. It was between the years of 1975 and 1977, the Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd (IPICOL), then under the…
